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https://github.com/lorenzorutayisire/lr2-blender-loader This might help with world extraction. You'll have to do some fine tuning to get the textures properly working though

Fortunately, all models (except the cars and terrain) have already been ripped from the game (see "Racers 2"-link and "Clothes for minifigures"), which should make things easier. (you only have to place the folder in Unity and the textures will automatically be applied to the model) Here is a website with LDD-models from various theme (including car-models): https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/41226-key-topic-official-lego-sets-made-in-ldd/#entry722512

I'll have to look into how the original game handles this. I'm working on the static models, and recreating the environment at the moment. Already got 10 models done, including 3 larger ones.

FYI, there's no need for the patch. The game looks for the CD drive starting with drive letter A. If drive letter A isn't found then it just gives up immediately. Use Disk Management to map either your real optical drive or mounted ISO to A (doesn't matter where the media is, there just needs to exist some partition/drive mounted on A:). I've been able to play with 0 crashes on Windows 10. The avi cutscenes don't play, but I'm wondering if that's a codec issue, as I can't play the .avi's video portion with Windows 10's default video player. (Update: Run the game in compatibility mode, e.g. Windows 95, to get the cutscenes to play on Windows 10.) The cutscenes do play on the Windows XP VM though (after adding a floppy drive, as A seems to be reserved there). Randomly figured this out as I was testing it on my physical Windows XP box, and then wondering for a few hours just how it could possibly be working there with no problems while having issues with my Windows XP and Windows 98 VM. Update: Decided to check back here and saw OPs edit. Thanks Ninja-Trix for the compatibility mode find! Didn't think of messing around with that to get cutscenes working; now I no longer need the Windows XP VM anymore. IMO I'm kinda surprised nobody else figured this out. I'm guessing a combination of there being a patch + a very small community means that the probability of someone trying to explore a non-patch way to run the game was very unlikely. I'm not sure of the best way to add this information to this wiki I found when trying to get it to run (https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Lego_Chess), but I did put the info in the discussion section: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Talk:Lego_Chess